How can you help?

Everyone can play a part in helping to enhance the environment and to protect endangered species. As we work together to save these beautiful birds, members and helpers of the Kaharoa Kokako Trust can take great satisfaction from the extraordinary results we have achieved.

We invite you to be part of our success by helping out in the following ways:

Make a donation
Become a volunteer
Adopt a track


Make a donation to our Kokako Nest Egg
The Kokako Nest Egg has been established to provide funding for Kaharoa Kokako Trust activities in perpetuity. The Trust is committed to achieving financial self-sufficiency for future operations through creating an investment fund known as the “Kokako Nest Egg”.

All cash donations to the Trust will be invested in the Kokako Nest Egg to ensure on-going protection of kokako at Kaharoa.

Read our Kokako Nest Egg flyer for more information [185 Kb PDF]

Please send your donation by cheque to the
Kaharoa Kokako Trust, PO Box 78, Ngongotaha, 3041; or donate via the GiveaLittle website:

Help out at our volunteer work days
The Trust holds occasional work days to conduct track maintenance or to fill bait stations with poison. The poisoning operations only take place in the nesting season.

These work days give volunteers an opportunity to enjoy the bush while completing a useful task. Volunteers are notified in advance of work days, which usually take place on a Saturday morning.

Contact Graeme Young to put your name on the volunteer contact list.
Phone 07 349 0407
Mobile 0274 527 168

Adopt a track
The Adopt-a-track scheme is designed for volunteers who want to conduct track maintenance in their own time. You can choose a track that suits your fitness level and keep it maintained at your convenience throughout the year.

Read our Adopt-a-track guidelines to see what’s involved in this work [107 Kb PDF]